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Автор Патрисия Корнуэлл
Copyright
HarperCollins
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Published by HarperCollins
Copyright © Cornwell Entertainment, Inc. 2014
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Cover photographs © Jill Battaglia / Trevillion Images (house); Getty Images (car);
Patricia Cornwell asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.
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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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Source ISBN: 9780007552429
Ebook Edition © NOVEMBER 2014 ISBN: 9780007552443
Version: 2014-10-09
Dedication
—FRANÇOIS RABELAIS, 1532
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Epilogue
About the Author
Also by Patricia Cornwell
About the Publisher
To Kay Scarpetta
From Copperhead
Sunday, May 11
(11:43 p. m. to be exact)
(do turn the page please …)
CHAPTER 1
JUNE 12, 2014
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
COPPER FLASHES LIKE SHARDS of aventurine glass on top of the old brick wall behind our house. I envision ancient pastel stucco workshops with red tile roofs along the Rio dei Vetrai canal, and fiery furnaces and blowpipes as maestros shape molten glass on marvers. Careful not to spill, I carry two espressos sweetened with agave nectar.
